Sequence I
^{Pastel and ink on paper, 2003, signed on back}

Size: 26.5" x 40" (including the frame)

"'Children are best attuned to those invisible things that matter most.' says Lawrence Strauss, referencing "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupery. And Strauss' work revolves around those things from his childhood that led him to aspire and imagine. These have included a symbolic language of monsters and heroes. And currently to the comic page itself. 'So much of my work I owe to comics.' Lately he has borrowed the proportion and segmented page layout from the silver age of comics when he first experienced comics. 'They had wide pages, with tops and sides of equal weight with extra weight at the bottom of the page.' Finding this simple aesthetic consideration in the comics of his youth, led him to ask why shouldn't that comic page, the conveyor of his childhood inspiration, be the basis of his aesthetic approach? That question opened to Strauss an idiom in which he creates emotional sequences - recording a series of reactions to a static subject; whole images of assembled fragments that seem stained glass window-like; and visually recorded performances." From the exhibition notes for "On the Wall Comics," Worcester Artist Group, 2004 Next